An unfettered supply of cheap labour hurts enterprise in the long run #OpPopulation

An unfettered supply of cheap labour hurts enterprise in the long run February 25, 2013 by admin Filed under: Current Affairs and Politics (EDITORIAL POLICY: This article may NOT be reproduced on any blog or website, but link-backs or SNIPPETS with FULL attribution to this site are welcome and appreciated.) Written by Ng E-Jay 25 February 2013 After the Worker’s Party launched its own population policy paper, entitled “A Dynamic Population for a Sustainable Singapore “, some businesses were up in arms, decrying the paper as stifling and destructive. The WP had proposed setting a population target of between 5.6 million and 5.8 million, lower than the government’s white paper which proposed an eventual population size of 6.5 million to 6.9 million by the year 2030. The WP suggested that this could be achieved by increasing the Labour Force Participation Rate via social inve...